Background
ELIAS, Higher Education Judge Taslim Olawale was born on November 11, 1914 in Lagos, Nigeria. Son of Momolesho Elias and Ibidun Elias.
ELIAS, Higher Education Judge Taslim Olawale was born on November 11, 1914 in Lagos, Nigeria. Son of Momolesho Elias and Ibidun Elias.
Church Missionary Society Grammar School, Lagos, Igboli College, Lagos, University College, London and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London. 1963, Nature of African Customary Law 2nd education 1962 (translation into French and Russian), The Nigerian Legal System 1963, Nigeria: Development of its Laws and Constitution 1967, Problems Concerning the Validity of Treaties 1971, Problems concerning the Validity of Treaties (Hague Academy, of Institute Law lecture, in Recueil des cours) 1971, Nigerian Magistrate and the Offender 1972, Law and Social Change in Nigeria 1972, Africa and the Development of International Law 1972, Law in a Developing Society 1973, Modem Law of Treaties 1974, Judicial Process in Commonwealth Africa 1976, New Horizons in International Law 1979, Africa Before the World Court 1981, The International Court of Justice and Some Contemporary Problems 1983.
Judge Taslim Olawale, Queen"s Counsel, B A, Master of Laws, PH Doctorate., Doctor of Laws Nigerian lawyer Fellow, University of Manchester 1951-1953. Oppenheim Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Nuffield College, and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford 1954-1960.
Visiting Professor, in Politicial Science, Delhi University 1956.
Minister of Justice, Nigeria 1960-1966, Attorney-General 1960-1972. Executive Council 1966-1971.
Commander for Justice 1967-1972, Chief Justice of Supreme Court 1972-1975. Judge Institute Court of Justice since 1976 (Vice-President 1979-1982, Acting President 1981-1982, President 1982-1985).
Governor SOAS, London University 1957-1960.
Chairman 1970. Chairman United Nations Committee of Constitutional Experts to draft Congo Constitution 1961, 1962. Professor, of Law and Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Nigeria 1966-1972.
Chairman Committee of the Whole at United Nations Conference on Law of Treaties 1968, 1969.
Executive Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg 1969. Leading Counsel in Namibia Case, International Court of Justice 1971. Chairman Advisory Judicial Committee of Nigeria 1972-1975.
Chairman Sixth Commonwealth Law Conference, Lagos 1980.
Vice-President World Bank Administration Tribunal 1980-1981. President Court, final round Philip C. Jessup Institute Law Moot Court Competition 1981.
Chairman Governing Council, Nigerian Institute of Institute Affairs since 1972. President AsianAfrican Legal Consultative Committee 1972.
Executive Institute Commission, of Jurists since 1975.
President Nigerian Society of Institute Law. Chairman African Institute of Institute Law. Association; President World Association of Judges 1975.
President World Association for Institute Relations since 1984.
Titular; Commander of Federation Republic of Nigeria. Distinguished Fellow of the Delian Institute of Institute Relations 1986.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Lagos State University 1987. Judge Manfred Lachs 1984, Essays on Third World Perspectives in Jurisprudence, Africa and the West 1986.
Contrib. to Encyclopaedia of Public International Law Number 7 1984.
Many articles
Delegate to Nigerian Constitutional Confi, London 1958. Federation; Governor Council, University of Nigeria 1959-1966. United Nations Institute Law Commission 1961-1975, General Rapporteur 1965-1966.
Expert Committee drafting Organization of African Unity Charter 1963.
Advisory Board for Law Reports of the Commonwealth since 1984. Institute of Institute Law 1962, member 1983.
American Society of Institute Law 1973. Institute Law Association, Curatorium of The Hague Academy, of Institute Law.
Society of Public Teachers of Law, United Kingdom.
Governor SOAS (London University) since 1970. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences. Institute Academy Comparative Law.
Institute Maritime Law Association.
Council of Manager of British Institute of Institute and Comparative Law.
Married Ganiat Yetunde Elias in 1959.